Re: Basic linux network questions (long)
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>>>>> "Heather" == Heather <star@betelgeuse.starshine.org> writes:
Richard Wurdack writes:
>> I discover, however, that if I shut the lid on the box (it might be
>> hibernating, don't know - I didn't doing anything special for APM),
>> and reopen it, pon can't dial out without a reboot (just like
>> Windows!).
ThinkPads, by default, suspend when you shut the lid. You can probably
change it in the BIOS, and if not, in Windows (if you still have it
installed).
BTW, since you're using a ThinkPad, you might want to look at the tpctl
and tpctl-modules-source packages. It's configuration tools for
ThinkPads, which may or may not work on your particular model. You'll
need to install tpctl-modules-source first, build and install the
modules, and then you can install tpctl.
Heather> Nowadays some boxen are much better at speaking ACPI, but the
Heather> degrade after a kernel build suggests that APM was probably
Heather> enough. In "make menuconfig" this is at the bottom of one of
Heather> the upper sections.
If you want to try ACPI, though, beware that kernel support for it is
not as mature as for APM, and it may not work as well.
>> Problem #3 This is the real blocking issue. Today I bring the laptop
>> back to work, because I want to download some big packages. First,
>> no pcmcia, because I didn't really do everything I needed to when I
>> build 2.2.20 (specifically, no pcmcia module in
>> /lib/modules/linux2.2.20). Ok, no big deal, since I still have my
>> 2.2.19 kernel in /boot. Boot 2.2.19, run dhcpcd (as usual, see
>> Problem #1). Domain names aren't resolving (ping www.yahoo.com
>> <http://www.yahoo.com> - host unreachable), but I can ping IP
>> addresses.
For a 2.2 kernel, you'll need to get the pcmcia-source and compile it.
As Heather suggests, make-kpkg can help reduce headaches.
"kernel-package" is the name of the package you should install. Then
"man make-kpkg".
Heather> David Hinds' stuff available as source seperately or from
Heather> unstable.
(David Hinds? Oh, pcmcia-cs.)
>> Looked at the networking HOWTO - the only thing I found that looked
>> wrong was that route.conf was empty, so I added our DNS servers. I
>> can ping the DNS servers (by IP address), but name resolution still
>> fails.
Look at resolv.conf. That's where your DNS servers should go.
(man resolve.conf)
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